Staff Software Engineer
Astera Institute is an active nonprofit research institute and foundation that operates in-house neuroscience-informed AI research and funds, operates, and supports open-science programs and public goods.
About Astera Institute
Astera operates three divisions: Neuro-AI, Radial life-sciences research, and its Foundation. Its AI work pursues neuroscience-informed approaches to artificial general intelligence, while its foundation and Radial activities support open scientific infrastructure, datasets, research programs, and residencies.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define and architect infrastructure for large-scale model training and complex simulations. You will optimize neuroscience-informed reinforcement learning environments, set engineering standards, scale research prototypes into production systems, and resolve systemic technical bottlenecks.
Requirements
- Set standards for clean, maintainable, well-tested code
- Architect complex systems from scratch
- Understand long-term system-design trade-offs
- Master complex domains quickly and guide others through them
- Lead resolution of difficult distributed-systems and kernel-level optimization challenges
Responsibilities
- Define and architect high-performance infrastructure for large-scale model training and complex simulations
- Design and optimize custom reinforcement learning environments informed by neuroscience
- Set standards for clean, fast, production-grade code
- Turn research prototypes into scalable production systems
- Resolve systemic technical bottlenecks across optimization and technical strategy